Stay away. Starting the review at 3 stars
-1: No accommodation for luggage for early arrival. I’ve been at Airbnb in the US, Spain, Italy, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, and Vietnam. More likely than not, there are times where my schedule just won’t fit the check-in time. This time I was way early and asked if they had a spot for me to stow the luggage while I explore. Host claims that there’s a previous guest, so no storage. Funny thing is I checked the availability and the two days before were empty. Host was dishonest and stingy. Other hosts either allowed a drop off or helped out by letting my store luggage somewhere close by. Not only is host stingy, but didn’t even try to help with alternatives.
-1: Host(s) were annoying and frustrating. I answered some questions hosts had on arrival and whatnot on Airbnb. Host then requested that I add an account on WeChat, a messaging platform, which I did. Then this account requested that I authenticate myself. After that I got added into a group chat with another THREE people, all to manage this one place. Now they proceed to ask me the SAME questions. Absolutely dumb.
-1: Check-in complicated and underwhelming. Check-in was in the underground parking structure, not at the front desk because this is supposed to be hush-hush. Host requests that we take a picture to “prove” we are there. WTF? Why do I need to prove that I’m there? Anyways, found the elevator and just stood there. None of the hosts were there, but someone who didn’t speak English showed up. Brought us to the apartment and gave us the key. Waved to us to close the door and try opening with key. Once we confirmed we can open the door, she left. No introduction, no showing the rooms, amenities, how things worked. Nothing. We didn’t even know how to exit the building, but people seem to go back to the underground parking structure and walk up where the cars came down. So that’s what we did.
-1: Bug infested. Several mosquitos in the room, one centipede, and lots of ants. Windows and doors we closed. Need I say more?
-1: No bed sheets so we slept on whatever was on the bed.
-1: Shower didn’t drain. So shower didn’t drain and water backed up. I sent a message to the host. Host replied, just take off the filter the drain. So off came the filter which revealed the pipe, water started draining. So this is norm…
-1: Fake products. There’s a bottle of Pantene Pro V. We all know the iconic Pantene…white bottle, white opaque liquid. Nope…we got the white bottle with transparent blue liquid inside. Host was so cheap that they filled the Pantene bottle with something else. Who does that???
-1: Lack of toilet paper. There’s almost no toilet paper in the place like they are afraid that people will steal them.
-1: Crap WiFi. The wifi signal is horrible. The apartment isn’t that big. In the room, the wifi doesn’t connect or it connects intermittently. You have to sit in the living room to get a connection.
-1: Shoddy furniture. The dining table is glass, and its legs were wobbly. Imagine eating on the table and it wobbles as you eat. Care to have some glass shards with your meal? No thanks.
-1: Crap lighting. The lightbulb in the living room occasionally flickers like you’re at a rave party of a haunted house. Depends on how you look at it, this could be cool for you.
-1: Check out annoying. Day before checkout, two hosts reminded us that it’s 11AM checkout. Didn’t need two people to do that really and we already discussed the checkout time previously, don’t be annoying please. Host also told us that we can leave from the poolside. Idiot me only saw gravel on one side and a dead end on the other. Would have been nice if the hosts had shown us around the complex before leaving. So we had to use the key to activate the elevator, run back to the apartment to drop off key and run back to elevator.
So starting at an average 3 stars, after the -12 stars, the place earns a -9 star rating. Out of the countless airbnbs I stayed at, this was the only bad review I left. Would you care to gamble?